Get string from between two characters

Question

I need to get string from between two characters. I have this

S= \"10:21:35 |Manipulation       |Mémoire centrale   |MAJ Registre mémoire\"

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Answer 1

Alternatively, org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils has about 14 variants of the split() method.

Answer 2

Like in other answers I suggest you using split() method to separate your string but remeber to use trim if you won't have spaces after parts, like this:

S= "10:21:35 |Manipulation       |Mémoire centrale   |MAJ Registre mémoire"    
String splitted[] = S.split("\\|");
String a = splitted[0].trim();
String b = splitted[1].trim();
...

Answer 3

You can also use string.substring and get the required output as

string a =s.substring(0,8)

Like this u can assign for the one you want

Answer 4

You probably want this:

String[] s = "10:21:35 |Manipulation |Mémoire centrale |MAJ Registre mémoire".split("\\|");

There's also method trim() which removes trailing spaces from the strings.

Answer 5

String s = " 10:21:35   |  Manipulation |  Mémoire centrale |   MAJ Registre mémoire   ";
String[] split = s.trim().split("\\s*\\|\\s*",-1); //trim and split

Answer 6

If the length of each column is varient, use the examples given here with the split method.

However, if you have a fixed-sized file format substring will be a much better option. If you look at the implementation of substring (Java 5 and above if I recall correctly) - you can see that it has an O(1) to create the new strings, whereas split uses a regex which is time consuming.